Operational definition information

Operational definitions provide detailed information about how each objective statistic is produced.

The purpose of these definitions is to provide persons the necessary technical information so that statistics for national populations can be reproduced.  Comparable statistics for other populations can then be calculated.

Once you have selected a focus area, click on the "Read operational definition information now" button to view the operational definitions.

DATA2010 Home Data by focus area Data by data source Data for a specific objective within a focus area Data for specific objective using key word search Data by a specific population group Data for steps to a HealthierUS Objective operational definitions by focus area ICD-10 codes and age adjustment groups Download Excel focus area data spreadsheets

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This page last reviewed: Monday, May 03, 2004

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